Hey all

Recently I got a copy of some of my fav games I used to play on my 286 computer (which had a whole 1meg of ram and a 40meg hard drive !!! VGA 256K video card and just before microsoft released their first mouse)
Wow - thats about 17 years ago.....

Although they were a bit tricky to get to run (as they were DOS based) I am having a great time playing them again. Its amazing how when I play them I can still remember all the tricks and what comes next in the levels etc.

In particular my fav games are a couple made by the Bitmap Brothers

Xenon 2
Gods

I have not seen a better arcade type games than these two. The graphics are way before their time I reckon.

Also been playing Lemmings also. That game is excellent.

Share you fav old games.
Cheers
Squiddlyo

Probably either Elite or Gauntlet.

^ Elite - was that the space one where you traded products etc between different systems and had to dock at the big octagon shaped space stations?? If so - I loved that one also - I think from memory it was only in 16 colours ?

Xenon 2 is what I used to play all the time! It was really great fun!

^ I finished it once. Did you get that far Jay? Took about 6 months of playing. %)

I honestly can't remember....proberly not as I had rubbish computers at that time and I think lots of them just died......RIP Windows 93' How we miss your crash's....Oh wait just buy an XP and you can have those same experiences all over again! XD...aaa how I love my Mac XD XD XD XD XD

Mine is TIger Hunter. It is a WW2 tank game. Came out in 2001? Awesome graphics.

-z- mentioned my old favorite, Gauntlet. (Blue Valkyrie needs food badly!)

I was also a big fan of pong, but that was loooong ago. Hard to believe how many hours were spend making that little dot go back and forth.

Last edited: Thursday, January 19, 2006 at 6:03:32 AM

I liked Gauntlet too! Robotron and Sinistar were some other, high intensity favorites. (Am I showing my age yet?)

On the Atari 2600, Adventure and Robot Tank (by Activision).

Later on I really got into Metroid (when Shamus was a dude) on the NES. Lifeforce and Contra too (both by Konami).

More recently I got into Age of Empires for a long time, then AoE 2, neither of which I ever played on the Internet.

Then there was this game called ThinkTanks, which was my transition game to playing on the net.

I played just about every Mac game ever produced from 1985 until recent. Before that I owned the first generation Atari. But the first "modern" game that really rocked my world was Descent. I owned two Apple Quadra machines, and Descent was the first game that I played networked. I was in awe that I could have a friend play on one machine while I played the other... And we could see each other. We ended up having weekend parties at my house, all based around playing Descent into the wee hours of the morning.

The next game that rocked my world was "Marathon". I was working at Apple at the time and I am quite sure that Marathon had a lot to do with the downfall of Apple during the Gil Amelio era. At any time of day, you could walk down the hallways of Mac OS Engineering and easily 50% off the engineers would be playing Marathon. In the Cube farm areas of the floor, you would hear the constant din of gunfire. Marathon was a big deal in Mac OS Engineering.... Blame Bungie for Apples Dark Days.

@LGM

Pong, I rember getting that Christmas 1977(?).
We took it to our family gathering and gave the
controles to Grandma. Well Grandma had no clue
what she was doing but ended up beating Uncle
Howard. As we where all holding our guts from laughing
Grandma says" Is this on live TV?"

As for my old time favorite I'd say joust, funny that
game had some of the same anti-gravity tourque feel
as TT.

T raider

Last edited: Thursday, January 19, 2006 at 6:36:40 AM

Ya I was just about to say joust... I loved galaga though... Brilliant little piece of loveliness

Anybody ever play Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy?

^I still have it on my MacSE. :)

You can play it online here.

Reminds me of the old "Castlevania" game for IIe's

One on my favorites was, and still is Chuckie Egg (get it from my website Chuckie.zip ). Spent hours when I was a kid playing it, and beleive it or not I still have my original BBC MICRO and 5 1/4 floppy disck drive, which was bought for me in 1984!!! Yes I still get it out every now and then to play the old games, including Castle Quest, Qbert,Frak, Jet Pack, Repton, Elite, etc

Much Fun

Daz

Last edited: Thursday, January 19, 2006 at 11:14:48 AM

Gotta be Atari Combat.

I still have an Atari 2600 that I got for free (someone was giving it away!). I have Combat and 20-something other games. I also own an NES.

Man...

I loved Spy Vs Spy on C64...

The split screen with two players, runing through the place, setting traps for each other... It was endless laughter.

I even looked for it the other day for the C64 emulator for the Mac. I would LOVE to play it again... Good memories!

Just remembered another old favorite- Bosconian- you had to fly around and destroy all the enemy star bases. I could go for an hour on a quarter. XD

Contra...
Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Select Start ;)

Don't forget that wonderful game Wolfenstien. Very, very addictive although I still don't like german sheperds for some reason.

I also loved golden-eye for the 64. Loved hunkering down with a laser rifle.

Marathon by Bungie, released in '94. Far and away one of the best games ever. In fact, I've yet to come across a game that has had the depth of story intrigue and engrossing gameplay as Marathon and the 2 sequels it spawned. Sure, games these days have WAY better graphics, but the gameplay is often hollow by comparison.

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What about the old helicopter drop on the old, old, very old, apple systems from the 1980's? Had nothing but a green and black screen...

Yes, Elite was the space trading game. Used to play that for endless hours on a BBC Micro, then later on an amstrad, then on amiga, and now have (or did have back in UK) a great remake for PC.

Frak was cool - I remember the ruder spoof version of the game better though..

I can't remember the name of the first game that got me hooked into computer games, but it was on a commodore pet back in the late 70s. A graphical rpg game, using ascii characters for monsters and player etc.

Top 3 from recent decades:
70's: Pacman, Asteroids, Zork
80's: Elite, Gauntlet, Populous
90's: Civilization, Syndicate, Age of Empires/Kings
00's: ThinkTanks, WoW, DiabloII

Actually the first games I ever played were on my dads first computer, it was on a Kaypro 64. That would be more than 20 years ago.

Tiny green and black screen with ascii graphics only - before DOS anyhow.
The games were Ladders (a sort of donkey kong rip off and Catchem - pacman rip off).

Funny thing is that computer cost like close to 3 grand at the time I think. I still remember my mum was spewing when he bought it.
Your mobile phone would have more processing power than a kaypro now I reckon.

Stay safe
Squid

Oh wow -z-

I forgot about Populous.... FANTASTIC game --- right up there with Spy..

Runescape

Remember "Battlezone", the green vector graphics tank battle game? I loved that! I remember once trying to drive to the mountains in the background, but the other tanks kept attacking me.

Phwooooar... Syndicate was amazing.

---gets up frantically and dashes to the loft---

@ Rabban- loved BZ. Maybe if you could have had a heavy in BZ, you would have made it.

It also reminds me of the old Star Wars arcade game with vector graphics

Come to think of it, Battlezone had a UFO too. Hmmmmmmmm....

Foosball - never crashes, no lag, ever.

Oregon Trail. Green screen and the whole bit.

M.U.L.E. - It was this game on an old atari computer that we had at school. It had color graphics even and after we finished our pre-calculus work, we always found time to play M.U.L.E. Great game.

Mine was so excelent. Winter olympics 1989. Or some year like that. Played on the original Apple computer w/ 1 button mouse and giant keyboard. So much fun. It always crashed, though, when you got to the skiing part.

Marble Madness was by far my favorite... I have it for an emulator right now, it was plain awsome ofr it's time.

Hellcats over the Pacific.
Lemmings.

(Not actually "pre-internet" but it was still pretty new back then...)

Remember Defender? Missle command was the real deal. Spent hundreds in the arcades trying to defend the cities!!!

Tecmo Bowl

lol KKB that's why you're in favor of a Homeland Perimeter of Security! XD

Using -Z-'s format
Tops from recent decades:
70's: Asteroids, Vanguard, Choplifter, Space Invaders
80's: Vindicator, Xybot, Doudle Dragon, Xevious, Gauntlet, Elevator Action, Sinistar, Mouse,
90's: Civilization 2, Nobugawa's Revenge, Bandit Kings of Ancient China
00's: Myth 2 ThinkTanks, Hearts of Iron 1-2, Myth 2

Mine was probably 2 Minute Football by Shockwave and Bricks of Steel.

Bugdom2 & nanosaur2 rock XD XD XD XD